And, for the record, the dictionary says the term Yellow Dog Democrats dates back to the days following the Civil War, when “many Southern Democrats said they would rather ‘vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for any Republican’.”

“Today,” the entry continues, “the term refers to loyal Democratic voters who vote the straight party line.” (For the rest of the terms in that sentence, you know where to go.)

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